Demonstrators poured into the nation’s streets and parks over the weekend to denounce white supremacy and Nazism, one week after clashes between far-right demonstrators and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., turned deadly.Published OnAug. 19, 2017CreditImage by Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Watch the video above. What happened one week earlier that sparked the demonstrations shown in the video? How were Saturday’s events different from the demonstration that took place on August 12 in Charlottesville?

1. What ideas did Saturday’s protests express? How many people participated? Where did protests take place?

2. How did President Trump respond to these events on Twitter? How was this “an abrupt shift in tone,” compared with what he had said earlier?

3. What group held a demonstration in Boston on Saturday? How did counter-protesters respond?

4. How did police officers prevent violence from erupting between the two groups?

5. How, according to the article, did the death of Heather D. Heyer, which occurred during the demonstration last week in Charlottesville, affect decisions made by law enforcement officers and participants who were present for Saturday’s demonstrations?

6. Who is Susan Bro? What did she ask people to do? What did she say she hopes will come of her daughter’s death?

Finally, tell us more about what you think:

In the Op-Ed “How to Make Fun of Nazis,” Moises Velasquez-Manoff writes about the German town of Wunsiedel, which “has struggled with a parade of unwanted visitors” every year because one of Adolf Hitler’s deputies had been buried there for many years. The town turned to “humorous subversion,” with tactics like an anti-Nazi fundraiser in which people donated money for every meter the neo-Nazis walked:

The campaign, called Rechts Gegen Rechts — the Right Against the Right — turned the march into Germany’s “most involuntary walkathon.” For every meter the neo-Nazis marched, local residents and businesses pledged to donate 10 euros (then equivalent to about $12.50) to a program that helps people leave right-wing extremist groups, called EXIT Deutschland.

They turned the march into a mock sporting event. Someone stenciled onto the street “start,” a halfway mark and a finish line, as if it were a race. Colorful signs with silly slogans festooned the route. “If only the Führer knew!” read one. “Mein Mampf!” (my munch) read another that hung over a table of bananas. A sign at the end of the route thanked the marchers for their contribution to the anti-Nazi cause — €10,000 (close to $12,000). And someone showered the marchers with rainbow confetti at the finish line.

This week, following the violence in Charlottesville, Va., Wunsiedel has come back into the news. Experts in nonviolent protest say it could serve as a model for Americans alarmed by the resurgent white supremacist movement who are looking for an effective way to respond (and who might otherwise be tempted to meet violence with violence). Those I spoke with appreciated the sentiment of the antifa, or anti-fascist, demonstrators who showed up in Charlottesville, members of an anti-racist group with militant and anarchist roots who are willing to fight people they consider fascists. “I would want to punch a Nazi in the nose, too,” Maria Stephan, a program director at the United States Institute of Peace, told me. “But there’s a difference between a therapeutic and strategic response.”

The problem, she said, is that violence is simply bad strategy.

Violence directed at white nationalists only fuels their narrative of victimhood — of a hounded, soon-to-be-minority who can’t exercise their rights to free speech without getting pummeled. It also probably helps them recruit. And more broadly, if violence against minorities is what you find repugnant in neo-Nazi rhetoric, then “you are using the very force you’re trying to overcome,” Michael Nagler, the founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies program at the University of California, Berkeley, told me.

What do you think about nonviolence as a response to the resurgent white supremacist movement in the United States? What about using humor?